by Ryan Silberstein, Managing Editor, Red Herring
Stop Making Sense is the ultimate concert movie, and remains an essential text for the form as well as a perfect document of the joy to be found in the Talking Heads music.
Written by Jennifer Trainer, Pola Rapaport and Noah Bashevkin
Directed by Jennifer Trainer
Featuring Meryl Streep, Nick Cave, David Byrne, Bill T. Jones and James Turrell
Running time: 1 hour and 16 minutes
by Emily Maesar
North Adams, Massachusetts is a small town in the north east corner of the state. The Hoosic River runs through it, forking around the vestige of Sprague Electric. It was once a factory town, like so many others in the country, but in 1985 the electric company made the devastating choice to close the factory down entirely.
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